Logan Jenkins

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Logan Jenkins, the U-T's North County news columnist, a fourth-generation San Diegan, grew up in Coronado. He attended Francis Parker School in Mission Hills through eighth grade, graduating from Coronado High School in 1965. After earning a doctoral degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia, he taught for several years at San Diego State University, where he'd studied as an undergraduate. In the early '80s, Jenkins left the classroom for the newsroom, serving as editor of the La Jolla Light and a variety of editing positions at the Times Advocate in Escondido. In 1996, he joined the U-T as a columnist based in North County. Jenkins lives in Bird Rock with his wife, Renee, a retired Francis Parker teacher. His son, Lee, is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

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Two large Bills died within hours of each other on and just after Pearl Harbor Day. In terms of style, the two journalists, Bill Arballo and Bill Missett, could not have been more dissimilar. One was mild; the other wild. But in their distinct ways, both Bills put deep stamps on North County’s...

With the right training, retired Navy SEALs can be killers in a tech-based business world that stretches way beyond no-brainer security and law enforcement options. SEALs can strike it rich on the digital frontier. That’s one of the working premises of The Honor Foundation, a four-year-old nonprofit...

On the infamous date, 75 years ago, life changed, changed utterly. After the first dots and dashes — Pearl Harbor attacked — hit the Chollas Heights radio tower, a terrible beauty, stealing from the great Yeats poem, was born. I missed the combat, the rationing, the blackouts, but during the Cold...

To: Supervisor-elect Kristin Gaspar From: A North County well-wisher Re: Your re-election in 2020 First, off, congratulations. You defeated an incumbent supervisor, which hasn’t been done in San Diego County since Supervisor Paul Eckert was rejected by North County voters in 1986. Of course,...

The campaign to restore Presidio Hills, the neglected nursery of San Diego golf, is in the early mustering stage. A long, hilly course lies ahead. After last week’s column, which was hooked to a Presidio reunion round of former junior golfers long in the tooth but sporting killer short games, it’s...

Last weekend, I joined a group of San Diego golfers who share, in addition to the natural sorrows of aging, unnaturally feathery touch around the greens. For about a dozen years, Mike Riley, a stellar junior player when I was growing up in the ‘50s, has organized an autumn Old Town get-together...

Why is this dinner like no other? The question, modified and imported from the Passover Haggadah, seems particularly befitting as family and friends gather for this Thanksgiving like no other. In the first flush of spring, Jewish families recite over dinner an immutable narrative of suffering and...

“It’s North County’s Hundred Years War,” I wrote in 2009. “Long after my earthly remains are buried, Gregory Canyon will still be working its way through a permitting process only Kafka could love.” Saints be praised, I was wrong. I lived long enough to see the damned dump declared dead. Thursday’s...